[Update] Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla 1.7.7 released

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Pelo said:
Re: Firefox 1.0.3
Be sure to save (export) your bookmarks first.
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Why ?

I had no problem with the update, and all of my bookmarks are still there.
 
The Six Million Dollar Man said:
Why ?

I had no problem with the update, and all of my bookmarks are still
there.
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As I recall the first versions of firefox were refreshingly self
contained,
and just involved uncompressing files into a file structure you could put
anywhere you wanted. I guess, there were not even, for windows, registry
entries to worry about. But updates, would overwrite bookmarks,
passwords, and so on unless you knew which files to backup first.

The current setup files for firefox, automatically puts many firefox
files under C:\windows\Mozilla\ .. - - - like it or not and seems to
install registry entries.

Does anyone know how updates now automatically preserve data files,
such as bookmarks? I think a backup directory is created at some point,
but I do not know where, and when. If you uninstall an old firefox,
before installing a current version, are data files still preserved?

I usually follow a standard uninstall by a second one using
totaluninstall, but I do not know if, in the case of firefox, this
would destroy data files.

Anyone have answers to some of this, before I start looking at the
firefox FAQs and so on?
 
Howard said:
Anyone have answers to some of this, before I start looking at the
firefox FAQs and so on?
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Firefox bookmarks, cookies, settings, extensions etc. are stored in a
profile. In 2k/XP this profile is located in C:\Documents and
Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles, and in
9x/ME in C:\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles.

As far as I understand, the installation does not touch this. It just
installs the program in C:\Program Files and writes some uninstall
information in the registry.

When FF starts, it looks for a profile. If this exists, then it reads
from it. If not (that is, the first time FF is started in a machine) it
creates one with the default settings.

This profile is the one to backup. It can get quite big, as it is also
the default location for the browser's cache. If you copy
"Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\jibberish.ProfileName" somewhere else and then
delete the cache folder, it should be somewhere between 3 and 10 Mb.

About Total Uninstall, I am not quite sure. I should think that, in a
clean installation of FF, if you record changes just after installing
and before starting the program, TUn will only record changes in Program
Files and in the registry.

To be sure, check the TUn log tree and just delete everything in
C:\Documents and Settings\... (or C:\Application Data\... in 9x/ME).

HTH. The Firefox installer is new to me. I used it for the first time a
week ago, for the 1.0.3 version.

Florestan
 
The current setup files for firefox, automatically puts many
firefox files under C:\windows\Mozilla\ .. - - - like it or not
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C:\Windows\Mozilla doesn't look like one of the locations for data
to me. Firefox puts itself in the Program Files folder (unless the
user specifies elsewhere, using 'custom install') and puts its data
in the Application Data folder(s). Microsoft has moved the
locations of Windows' Application Data folders, so the location
depends on your version of their OS. See
and seems to install registry entries.

Does anyone know how updates now automatically preserve data
files, such as bookmarks? I think a backup directory is created at
some point, but I do not know where, and when.
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The updates preserve the data files by simply not touching them.
If you uninstall an old firefox, before installing a current
version, are data files still preserved?
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Yes. I think when you run the uninstaller, you get a prompt asking
if you want to also delete the program data, but I am not certain;
you may have to delete it using the file manager. In any case, they
are not deleted without your input.
I usually follow a standard uninstall by a second one using
totaluninstall, but I do not know if, in the case of firefox, this
would destroy data files.
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If that's a worry, I'd back up the Firefox application data
directory before running TU. (Not just the Profiles subdirectory.)
 
Firefox bookmarks, cookies, settings, extensions etc. are stored
in a profile. In 2k/XP this profile is located in C:\Documents and
Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles, and
in 9x/ME in C:\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles.
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Just a small caveat -- there is another location where the profiles
might be in a 9X/Me installation,

C:\Windows\Profiles\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
 
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